March 2013 Karachi bombing

March 2013 Karachi bombing
LocationAbbas Town, Karachi, Pakistan
Date3 March 2013 (2013-03-03)
TargetShi'ite Muslims
Attack type
Car bombings
Deaths48[1]
Injured200[2]

The March 2013 Karachi bombing was a terrorist attack that struck a predominantly Shia area inside Abbas Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Pakistan on 3 March 2013. At least 48+ people were killed and more than 180+ others injured after a car bomb was detonated outside a Shia mosque, just as locals were leaving after the evening's services.[3] As rescuers gathered to the scene of the bombings, a second blast caused even more destruction. Authorities suspected the Sunni militant group Lashkar-e Jhangvi of being behind the attacks.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

This was the first major incident within the city since a wave of target killings left more than 300 dead in the summer of 2011.

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